Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

is interwoven with all the daily duties and
transactions of life. Nothing will be entertained, no
business engaged in, which will prevent the
accompaniment of this principle. To retain pure
and undefiled religion, it is necessary to be
workers, persevering in effort. We must do
something ourselves. No one else can do our work.
None but ourselves can work out our salvation with
fear and trembling. This is the very work which the
Lord has left for us to do.
Some ministers who profess to be called of
God have the blood of souls on their garments.
They are surrounded with backsliders and sinners,
and yet feel no burden for their souls; they manifest
an indifference in regard to their salvation. Some
are so nearly asleep that they seem to have no
sense of the work of a gospel minister. They do not
consider that as spiritual physicians they are
required to have skill in administering to souls
diseased with sin. The work of warning sinners, of
weeping over them and pleading with them, has
been neglected until many souls are past all cure.
Some have died in their sins, and will in the
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